Cambridge LawLink Issue No 6
Faculty of Law
INSTITUTE OF CRIMINOLOGY: NEW BUILDING OPENED BY LORD WOOLF
CONTENTS Institute of Criminology: new building opened by Lord Woolf
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What a summer for cricket!
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New Cambridge Student Law Review Launched
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A Letter From the Chair of the Faculty
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Reflections on Intellectual Property at Emma 4 Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Sciences 2005-2006 5
Vice-Chancellor Professor Alison Richard, Lord Woolf and Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms at the Official Opening of the new building
The new building for the Institute of Criminology was officially opened in May 2005 by Lord Woolf, Lord Chief Justice. He was introduced by Vice-Chancellor Professor Alison Richard, who described the Criminology building as a ‘worthy addition to the Sidgwick Site's wonderful classroom of architecture of the last few decades.’ She noted that the University had pioneered the development of Criminology as an academic subject in the United Kingdom and pointed out that the Institute was an example of how the highest academic standards can have practical relevance to society. Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms, who began as a student on the Institute's first postgraduate course in 1961, recalled the long struggle of the Institute to find suitable permanent premises. The initial, and substantial, element in funding for the Institute's new building was set aside in the Wolfson Foundation's grant to the University at the establishment of the Institute. The Director of the Wolfson Foundation,
Dr Victoria Harrison, was present at the opening. Cambridge University Press, together with the Higher Education Funding Council's SCHRIF funding, contributed to the library building costs. A significant donation was received from Mrs Priscilla Mitchell, in addition to her great generosity in funding postgraduate scholarships to the Institute and a library book fund. Mrs Mitchell was represented by her cousins, Jack and Mary Wakefield, and sent her best wishes for the opening of the Institute. The former director of the Institute, Michael Tonry, put together a successful bid to the Science Research Infrastructure Fund and made a significant contribution to design discussions. It was particularly fitting that Michael was able to be present at the opening: he went on to deliver the opening lecture at the celebratory conference the following day. Representatives of Allies and Morrison, the architects who had overseen the building's design and construction from its earliest stages, were also welcomed to the opening.
Cambridge University Press
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News from the Squire Law Library
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Conferences
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Mooting news
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Centre Reports
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In Memory of Trevor Brown
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Cambridge Joins International Group of Law Information Officers
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An Academic as a Judge
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Congratulations
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Arrivals and Departures
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Major Publications by Faculty Members
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Editors: Kate Parlett and Kirsty Allen
Part of Sir Leon Radzinowicz's legacy was a fund designated for the purpose of bringing to Cambridge a distinguished figure in public life to deliver a lecture and participate, for a short time, in the life of the Institute. Since Lord Woolf wrote the foreword to Sir Leon's last book, Adventures in Criminology, it was fitting that he should be the Institute's inaugural Radzinowicz Fellow. In opening the building, Lord Woolf expressed his admiration for the building and its design, and for the people whose vision and determination had seen the project though from drawing board to completion. Sara Harrop LawLink – Faculty of Law Newsletter Issue No 6 Page 1